I have found the ebook of my collection of poetry, “Lost in the Labyrinth of My Mind” available via sites with no connection to me. I have no idea whether these sites are click farms (I suspect they are) or whether my book is, in fact being offered (in an unauthorised manner) free. Kevin
Close to two years ago, I discovered that my eBooks, both of them, were being listed for sale on a site about which I’d never heard before. They were not under contract to sell my eBooks nor was I receiving any payment for the nearly 1000 times the site reported my novel had already been downloaded. There was a link on the site authors could write to, if they felt their copyright had been infringed. So I wrote, asked them to take down my books, and … nothing happened. That’s when I contacted my friend Tim Baker, whose books were also listed on the site, and he wrote this blog post about our experience. Many of our friends also took up the cause, sharing this blog post and following up with more information as they heard of it – good friends like Chris Graham who blogs as The Story…
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K Morris - Poet 
Lots of these posts around at the moment – stay vigilant, people!
Thanks for your comment Lucy. Apparently (in China) print books are copied and sold! Kevin
Bloody hell! Then again, similar stuff happens all the time in the music industry. There is no respect for talent these days, sadly.
Thanks for reblogging, Kevin!
Thank you for your comment. You are welcome for the re-blog. You raise a very important issue which needs to be publicised widely. Kevin.